Kim Walker-Smith

In 2005, Walker's "powerful voice won her $25,000 cash in an American Idol type of competition called So You Want to Be a Star, which aired on Chico television station KRVU. [She] is considered by many to be a forerunner in a new kind of worship referred to as prophetic worship." Walker has cited Misty Edwards of the International House of Prayer and Suzy Yaraei of Morning Star Ministries, both prominent worship leaders in the evangelical community, as her greatest musical influences.

In 2009, Walker married Skyler William Smith (born March 25, 1981), another worship leader who also does graphic design and photography. She now releases music under the name Kim Walker-Smith instead of her maiden name. In addition to her career of solo albums, she is also a member of the band Jesus Culture, which began as a youth worship band at Bethel, but now hosts multiple worship conferences around the country and produces a live record each year, in addition to frequently leading worship at Bethel. In 2010, Walker-Smith stated that she was "at Bethel once to twice a month right now. We travel about three to four times a month. About 40 percent of that is Jesus Culture." She has also expressed a desire for her music to expand into the secular community, expressing a passion for social justice and "to see the arts and creativity restored and a new standard set". "I've always looked at music as a vehicle to get me to people".

On July 16, 2013 Walker-Smith and her husband, Skyler, released, Home, their first album together. Their son, Wyatt Smith, was born September 25, 2013. Their second son, Bear, was born in December 2014. In December 2016 Kim announced she and Skyler were expecting their third child, which is a girl, and that she is working on another Jesus Culture album. In early March, Jesus Culture announced that Walker-Smith would be releasing her first solo album since 2013, titled On My Side, on April 21. The album reached No. 1 on Billboard's Top Christian Albums Chart as of May 13, 2017. On June 9, 2017, Walker-Smith gave birth to her daughter, Maisie.